The Must-Know Topics for an LLM Engineer
From tokenisation to evaluation : how modern language models actually work in practice The post The Must-Know Topics for an LLM Engineer appeared…
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RAG Is Blind to Time — I Built a Temporal Layer to Fix It in Production
Three weeks into testing, a learner told me my AI tutor gave her the wrong answer. Not obviously wrong —…
Binance Founder CZ Sees Major Changes Ahead For Crypto
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said crypto may be entering a new phase shaped by AI agents, tokenized real-world assets, stablecoin…
Europe Hits Pause on Its Toughest AI Rules – and the Backlash Has Already Begun
EU officials have agreed to water down certain aspects of the AI Act, including delaying the implementation of rules covering…
From Data Scientist to AI Architect
The end of model-centric thinking in data science The post From Data Scientist to AI Architect appeared first on Towards…
The AI Agent Security Surface: What Gets Exposed When You Add Tools and Memory
Standard prompt attacks are merely the beginning. A structured framework to map and mitigate the backend attack vectors of agentic…
When Customers Churn at Renewal: Was It the Price or the Project?
A practitioner’s guide to causal attribution when two churn drivers arrive at once. The post When Customers Churn at Renewal:…
Tether freezes over $500M of USDT in 30 days, BlockSec data shows
BlockSec data shows Tether froze over $500 million in USDT across 370 Ethereum and Tron addresses in 30 days, adding…
Zcash gains 70% in a week amid growing interest in crypto privacy
Swyftx’s Pav Hundal says Zcash is surging amid concerns about artificial intelligence, quantum computing and financial surveillance.
XRP ‘probably going to $12’ as price holds historical bottom zone for months
XRP is retesting a key multi-year support zone that has historically preceded major rebounds, with analysts predicting a rally toward…
The Joy of Typing
A practical guide to modern type annotations in Python for data science The post The Joy of Typing appeared first…
Give Your AI Unlimited Updated Context
The architecture behind a portable knowledge layer and the automation that keeps it alive. The post Give Your AI Unlimited…
AlphaEvolve: How our Gemini-powered coding agent is scaling impact across fields
Explore how AlphaEvolve’s Gemini-powered algorithms are driving impact across business, infrastructure, and science.
How Major Reasoning Models Converge to the Same “Brain” as They Model Reality Increasingly Better
Because there’s only one reality to model! The post How Major Reasoning Models Converge to the Same “Brain” as They…
I Rewrote a Real Data Workflow in Polars. Pandas Didn’t Stand a Chance.
From 61 seconds to 0.20 seconds — and the mental model shift I didn’t expect The post I Rewrote a…
Study: Firms often use automation to control certain workers’ wages
When we hear about automation and artificial intelligence replacing jobs, it may seem like a tsunami of technology is going…
Bitcoin market dominance moves above 61%: Will altcoins follow?
Bitcoin’s market dominance climbed above 61% as BTC led crypto market flows. Data also showed Binance-listed altcoins’ share of volume…
Bitcoin market dominance moves above 61%: Will altcoins follow?
Bitcoin’s market dominance climbed above 61% as BTC led crypto market flows. Data also showed Binance-listed altcoins’ share of volume…
When the Uncertainty Is Bigger Than the Shock: Scenario Modelling for English Local Elections
A scenario analysis case study on calibrated uncertainty, historical error, and why some models are most useful when they refuse…
Timer-XL: A Long-Context Foundation Model for Time-Series Forecasting
Exploring the inner workings of a decoder-only Transformer foundation model The post Timer-XL: A Long-Context Foundation Model for Time-Series Forecasting…
Zcash price may hit $800 as $2.7B hedge fund reveals ‘significant position’ in ZEC
Robinhood’s ZEC listing, easing US–Iran tensions and a shrinking liquid supply of tokens are further strengthening the bullish outlook for…
Why I Don’t Trust LLMs to Decide When the Weather Changed
A physicist’s approach to building production-grade agents The post Why I Don’t Trust LLMs to Decide When the Weather Changed…
Deconstruct Any Metric with a Few Simple ‘What’ Questions
What you see is rarely what you get with flashy dashboards and data storytelling The post Deconstruct Any Metric with…
U.S. Officials Want Early Access to Advanced AI, and the Big Companies Have Agreed
Microsoft, Google DeepMind and Elon Musk’s xAI have offered to let the U.S. government access new AI models ahead of…
Games people — and machines — play: Untangling strategic reasoning to advance AI
Gabriele Farina grew up in a small town in a hilly winemaking region of northern Italy. Neither of his parents…
Crypto Fear and Greed Index turns neutral for first time since January: Is $100K BTC next?
Improving investor confidence supports Bitcoin’s hold on $80,000, as the Crypto Fear and Greed Index exited the “Extreme Fear” zone…
Discrete Time-To-Event Modeling – Predicting When Something Will Happen
Part 1: The basics — discretization of time, censoring and the life table The post Discrete Time-To-Event Modeling – Predicting…
How to Make Claude Code Validate its own Work
Improve Claude Code performance by having it validate its own work The post How to Make Claude Code Validate its…
RAG Hallucinates — I Built a Self-Healing Layer That Fixes It in Real Time
Your RAG system isn’t failing at retrieval — it’s failing at reasoning. This article shows how I built a lightweight…
White House Weighs AI Checks Before Public Release, Silicon Valley Warned
President Donald Trump’s White House is contemplating whether the US government should be allowed to screen the most powerful AI…
Single Agent vs Multi-Agent: When to Build a Multi-Agent System
A practical guide to understanding AI agent design, ReAct workflows, and when to scale from a single agent to a…
How to Build an Efficient Knowledge Base for AI Models
Building a knowledge base for AI models isn’t a one-time task but an iterative process of refinement. The post How…
Ethereum holders are back in profit as ETH price chart targets $3K
Ethereum investors are no longer in the red, increasing the chances of a rally to $3,000, but resistance at $2,800…
Playing Connect Four with Deep Q-Learning
Solving multiplayer games with function approximation The post Playing Connect Four with Deep Q-Learning appeared first on Towards Data Science.
‘Stablecoins’ are an outdated term from crypto’s early years: a16z Crypto
John Palmer, a developer and brand adviser, said it “feels like a bug” to call them stablecoins and that they…
CSPNet Paper Walkthrough: Just Better, No Tradeoffs
A review of the Cross-Stage Partial Network paper — and a from-scratch PyTorch implementation The post CSPNet Paper Walkthrough: Just Better,…
Iran’s largest crypto exchange founded by sons of family tied to supreme leaders: Reuters
Nobitex, Iran’s largest crypto exchange, was founded by brothers linked to the powerful Kharrazi family, which has ties to the…
Inference Scaling (Test-Time Compute): Why Reasoning Models Raise Your Compute Bill
Why reasoning models dramatically increase token usage, latency, and infrastructure costs in production systems The post Inference Scaling (Test-Time Compute):…
Which Regularizer Should You Actually Use? Lessons from 134,400 Simulations
A practitioner’s decision framework for Ridge, Lasso, and ElasticNet based on three quantities you can compute before fitting a model…
How a 2021 Quantization Algorithm Quietly Outperforms Its 2026 Successor
One scale parameter determines accuracy in rotation-based vector quantization. The post How a 2021 Quantization Algorithm Quietly Outperforms Its 2026…
The Oscars just drew a hard line in the sand: You’re allowed to use AI to help make a movie, but you’re not allowed to use AI actors or writers
Now actors and writers are supposed to be human. As the Academy released its rules for the 99th Academy Awards,…
XRP sentiment hits 2-year high, but why is price stuck?
XRP social media sentiment has turned bullish following integration with Rakuten Wallet, but resistance at $1.40 could cap the upside.
How to Get Hired in the AI Era
What people actually look for when hiring juniors that stand out. The post How to Get Hired in the AI…
Did Dogecoin bottom first? DOGE price poised for 20% gains as whales return
Dogecoin whale wallets hit record DOGE holdings as the price rallies 23.5%, strengthening the memecoin’s rally chances in May.
Ghost: A Database for Our Times?
The first database built for AI Agents The post Ghost: A Database for Our Times? appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Why Powerful Machine Learning Is Deceptively Easy
Or why what appears powerful can be methodologically fragile The post Why Powerful Machine Learning Is Deceptively Easy appeared first…
Beacon Biosignals is mapping the brain during sleep
The human brain remains one of the most fascinating and perplexing mysteries in medicine. Scientists still struggle to match neurological…
A Gentle Introduction to Stochastic Programming
How to make decisions when your spreadsheet is lying about the future The post A Gentle Introduction to Stochastic Programming…
Making the case for curiosity-driven science
“The thing that really struck me when I came to MIT and strikes me every single day is the stuff…
Enabling a new model for healthcare with AI co-clinician
Researching the path to AI-augmented care and development of an AI co-clinician.